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Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (1092+ words) novel, Cameo, but instead of self-abasing display, we get a perky book-world send-up for the culture war...Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era In this larky autofiction...
True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (232+ words) only tenuously related tale of his own from 40 years earlier, about a secret lover he had during the war...The section set before the civil war trades farce for a measured account of Raja’s boyhood, as in a series...
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook review – an immersive all-star dramatisation
11+ mon, 4+ day ago (384+ words) Instead of a straightforward narration, Audible has thrown its considerable resources at an all-star...Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook review – an immersive all-star dramatisation Actors Marianne...Instead of a straightforward narration, Audible has thrown its considerable resources…...
The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (221+ words) A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s No one knew what to call them. For some they were “skyjackers”, for others “air bandits”. Neither name stuck, but by 1970, these figures were fixtures of the western political…...
Len Deighton, spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File, dies aged 97
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (491+ words) British writer brought wit, realism and class consciousness to cold war espionage fiction, reshaping...The novel’s success led to a film adaptation in 1965, starring Michael Caine in what would become a defining...Decades later, the story was revisited in a…...
"I Full-On Sobbed": Readers Are Sharing Books That Are Flawless And Impossible To Put Down From The First Page To The Last, And I Wholeheartedly Agree
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (880+ words) Imagine telling the story of Star Wars, but not mentioning the Death Star....
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise?
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1093+ words) In the fourth volume of the occult Morning Star cycle, a Faustian pact haunts a misanthropic artist who...finds miraculous successKarl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star cycle may turn out to be even larger in scope...an unsettling account of the…...
Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (755+ words) Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly...prize, is set in a “small unnamed city in a colonial empire”, shortly after the end of the first world…...
The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof review – a Danish series that burns with purpose
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1112+ words) takes in lockdown, the devil, bad investments, erotic thrills and the deadly fire on the Scandinavian Star...ferryAt about 2am on the night of 7 April 1990, a fire broke out on board the MS Scandinavian Star,...deliberately as part of an insurance…...
Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (579+ words) The irascible, unkempt cold war-era spy heads up Slough House, the crumbling office for failed MI5 agents...The fifth season of the Apple TV+ adaptation, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, begins streaming...